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WWI Propaganda
Committee of public information
War at Home
• War Industries Board
• Committee of Public Information (CPI)
* war propaganda
* intolerance of anti-war opinion
* Help the U.S. mobilize for WWI
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“Don’t Take My Darling Boy Away”
A mother was kneeling to pray
For loved ones at war far away
And there by her side, her one joy
and pride,
knelt down with her that day
Then came a knock on the door
Your boy is commanded to war
"No Captain please, here on my
knees,
I plead for one I adore"
Don't take my darling boy away
from me,
Don't send him off to war
You took his father and brothers
three,
Now you've come back for more
Who are the heroes that fight your
war
Mothers who have no say
But my duty's done so for god's
sake leave one!
And don't take my darling boy
away.
Tenting tonight, Tenting tonight
Tenting on the old campground
You took his father and brothers
three,
Now you've come back for more
Tenting tonight, Tenting tonight
Tenting on the old campground
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But my duty's done so for god's sake
leave one!
And don't take my darling boy away.
A hero is now laid to rest, A hero and one
of the best
He fought with each son, The battles he'd
won,
And the battles that proved a test
Though she never went to the war,
She was a hero by far, they gave a gun
But who gave a son,
M. O. T. H. E. R.
Don't take my darling boy away from me,
Don't send him off to war
You took his father and brothers three,
Now you've come back for more
Who are the heroes that fight your war
Mothers who have no say
But my duty's done so for god's sake
leave one!
And don't take my darling boy away.
Tenting tonight, Tenting tonight
Tenting on the old campground
You took his father and brothers three,
Now you've come back for more
Tenting tonight, Tenting tonight
Tenting on the old campground
But my duty's done so for god's sake
leave one!
And don't take my darling boy away.
“Over There”
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Johnnie, get your gun,
Get your gun, get your gun,
Take it on the run,
On the run, on the run.
Hear them calling, you and me,
Every son of liberty.
Hurry right away,
No delay, go today,
Make your daddy glad
To have had such a lad.
Tell your sweetheart not to pine,
To be proud her boy's in line.
(chorus sung twice)
Johnnie, get your gun,
Get your gun, get your gun,
Johnnie show the Hun
Who's a son of a gun.
Hoist the flag and let her fly,
Yankee Doodle do or die.
Pack your little kit,
Show your grit, do your bit.
Yankee to the ranks,
From the towns and the tanks.
Make your mother proud of you,
And the old Red, White and
Blue.
(chorus sung twice)
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Chorus
Over there, over there,
Send the word, send the word
over there That the Yanks are coming,
The Yanks are coming,
The drums rum-tumming
Ev'rywhere.
So prepare, say a pray'r,
Send the word, send the word
to beware.
We'll be over, we're coming
over,
And we won't come back till it's
over
Over there.
U.S. Ambassador to Germany James W. Gerard in
1917 entitled Loyalty and German-Americans.
I know that it is hard for Americans to realize the magnitude of the war
in which we are involved. We have problems in this war no other
nations have. Fortunately, the great majority of American citizens of
German descent have, in this great crisis of our history, shown
themselves splendidly loyal to our flag.
Everyone had a right to sympathize with any warring nation. But now
that we are in the war there are only two sides, and the time has come
when every citizen must declare himself American - or traitor!
We must disappoint the Germans who have always believed that the
German-Americans here would risk their property, their children's
future, and their own neck, and take up arms for the Kaiser. The
Foreign Minister of Germany once said to me "your country does not
dare do anything against Germany, because we have in your country
500,000 German reservists who will rise in arms against your
government if you dare to make a move against Germany."
Well, I told him that that might be so, but that we had 500,001 lamp
posts in this country, and that that was where the reservists would
be hanging the day after they tried to rise. And if there are any
German-Americans here who are so ungrateful for all the benefits
they have received that they are still for the Kaiser, there is only one
thing to do with them. And that is to hog-tie them, give them back
the wooden shoes and the rags they landed in, and ship them back
to the Fatherland.
I have travelled this year over all the United States. Through the
Alleghenies, the White Mountains, and the Catskills, the Rockies
and the Bitterroot Mountains, the Cascades, the Coast Range, and
the Sierras. And in all these mountains, there is no animal that bites
and kicks and squeals and scratches, that would bite and squeal
and scratch equal to a fat German-American, if you commenced to
tie him up and told him that he was on his way back to the Kaiser.
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